This list shows 156 groundcover plants that are native to your location, and are carried in nurseries. Plants are ordered by their popularity in gardening applications.
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1. Orange Coneflower
Rudbeckia fulgida
2. Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
3. Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
4. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
5. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
6. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
11. Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
12. Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
13. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
14. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
15. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
16. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
17. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
18. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
19. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
20. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
21. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
22. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
23. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
24. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
25. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
26. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
27. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
28. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
29. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
30. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
31. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
32. Rocky Mountain Blazing Star
Liatris ligulistylis
33. Oxeye Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra
34. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
35. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
36. Redosier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
37. Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
38. Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum
39. Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
40. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
41. Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
42. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
43. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
44. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
45. Bluebell Bellflower
Campanula rotundifolia
46. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
47. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
48. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
49. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
50. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
51. Old Man’s Whiskers
Geum triflorum
52. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
53. Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
54. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
55. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
56. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
57. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
58. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
59. Bigleaf Aster
Eurybia macrophylla
60. Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
61. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
62. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
63. Alpine Violet
Viola labradorica
64. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
65. Partridge Berry
Mitchella repens
66. Shrubby St. John’s Wort
Hypericum prolificum
67. Plantainleaf Sedge
Carex plantaginea
68. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
69. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
70. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
71. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
72. Mapleleaf Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
73. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
74. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
75. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
76. Large Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
77. Autumn Onion
Allium stellatum
78. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
79. Intermediate Woodfern
Dryopteris intermedia
80. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
81. Large Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
82. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
83. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
84. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
85. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
86. Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
87. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
88. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
89. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
90. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
91. Low Serviceberry
Amelanchier spicata
92. Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
93. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
94. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
95. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
96. Prairie Violet
Viola pedatifida
97. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
98. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
99. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
100. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
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